Having contracted fever he was sent home in October 1879. Specifically for this work, he was noticed by both the Admiralty and the Colonial Officer, and ‘specially promoted to Commander for service at the Cape of Good Hope’ his promotion being made on 14th August 1878.ĭavis then volunteered to return to South Africa owing to the outbreak of the Zulu War, and when borne on the books of the flagship Boadicea, he saw service with the Naval Transport Service at Durban and later Port Durnford, being praised for his services. He carried out this work often un-armed and with a very small escort, and displayed zeal and courage whilst enduring the inevitable hardships and risks. Davis also particularly distinguished himself during this conflict, when he repeatedly risked his life in landing amongst heavy surf on a dangerous coastline to repair telegraph cables which had been cut by the hostile natives, thus maintaining vital communications. His active naval career spanned near enough four decades between 18, as whilst on the Retired List through to 1929, he was appointed a Nautical Assessor in the House of Lords.Īs a Midshipman he first saw combat during the Anglo-Japanese hostilities when present during the Anglo-Satsuma War and at the bombardment of Kagoshima on 15th to 17th August 1863, and then during the subsequent Shimonoseki campaign of 1864 and the second and final Battle of Shimonoseki Straits.ĭuring the 1860’s and through into the 1870’s he would spend a considerable period of time out on the China Station, but he would next see active service in South Africa during the 9th Xhosa War when the 1st Lieutenant of the corvette Active, the flagship at the Cape, he saw service under Commodore Sullivan with Active’s Naval Brigade during the various operations against the Galekas, Gaikas and other Kaffir tribes from 26th September 1877 through to 28th June 1878, that included the battle of Quintana. Davis, C.M.G., O.B.E., Royal Navy.ĭavis originally from Galway, Ireland, would latterly end up in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex. The truly outstanding and unique Australia Station Naval Commander’s 1890 to 1892 Western Pacific Exploration and Territorial Expansion proclamation of the Gilbert Islands as a British Protectorate New Years Honours 1894 Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Great War Sussex Ambulance Column Organiser’s March 1920 Officer of the Order of the British Empire, and South Africa 9th Xhosa War and Zulu War group awarded to Admiral E.H.M.
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